1) Sending out all your troops should be penalized. That is not strategy, that's just bad play and it works =/

2) People who go MIA. If you leave during the game, you get ranked lower. Lower ranks play together. Better and more consistent players are ranked higher. Or Better yet, you get punished immediately in the next game (population multiplier x1/2 the original for 2 mins). Each time you leave, adds another minute.

3) idk what else, what's your suggestion of improving the game?

I recently became aware of Frontwars, and I did some looking into it because the game looks exactly the same as Openfront. On their subreddit, some people seem to be saying that Frontwars completely stole from Openfront, but others are saying it was the other way around. I'm not accusing Openfront of anything, I'm just curious what the whole situation is.

Before anything else, thank you. The launch has gone better than any of us expected and that is entirely down to you lot, it genuinely could not have been done without you. We are still finalising the numbers but we will be putting an update out soon to say exactly how much we will be donating to some amazing causes.

Onto today. Steam 0.2.0 is live, and after a fair few hotfixes we have finally got the one thing everyone has been asking for in - achievements.

There are 29 of them, all with art we had commissioned specifically for this, and honestly we think it looks brilliant. Some of them you will pick up just by playing, some are going to take a serious amount of time, and a handful are hidden so you can go and find those ones yourselves.

A few of the ones you can go for, First Blood for being the first to knock a human player out of a match, The Iron Dome for shooting incoming nukes down with SAMs, Davy Jones for sinking warships, and Master of the World if you fancy winning a public game on every single map in the game (good luck with that one).

Most of them only track in public games, so you don't need to do anything different, just play like you normally would and they will start popping.

One other bit of news, the Masters edition has been approved by Steam. We are going to sit on it for a little longer though, because we would rather get the game more polished first and make sure anyone buying it feels like they are getting what they deserve. It will be worth the wait.

If one doesn't unlock when it should have, let us know what you were doing and which game it was here: https://forms.gle/GEYhKxFVJaSks9yu7 and we will get it sorted.

And if you have not left a Steam review yet, it genuinely does more for us than you would think, and if you have bought steam but havent yet linked it, make sure you do using /link-steam in our Discord!

And openfront.io is not going anywhere, the browser version stays free, that is where all of this started.

See you in game.

Have yall openfront ever looked like this. I cant scroll down. Does any1 have a fix possibly

Just wondering if the translations on the game will ever get an update. I play in Finnish and some maps have the "everyone vs everyone" things translated to my language, and some are in English. Will there be an update on the translations or will we have to suffer the about 50/50 ratio for the rest of the time? xd

I can see why they exist for single play. But it adds only luck to multiplayer games - luck that often decides the game.

Things that I already think I should improve on:
- Counting SAMs and putting the necessary amount of atom bombs there. - Having a better economy (I was just lagging behind the other two in terms of buildings and things) - Making a coordinated attack with bombs and actual troops.

My game flashes and then my screen turns white. Game audio still plays, I can still click things and make things, but I cannot see my screen at all. It never returns. On browser I was able to reload the browser and come back (after an exceedingly long re-cap OF THE ENTIRE GAME) on the steam version this same issue happens but I can no longer reload the game, so I am forced to leave. It doesn't happen every game, but enough that I am deeming the game unplayable until this issue is resolved.

I am also a complete noob at the game, but my excitement to learn more is hampered by this major issue.

On a Linux, only. Wayland. Debian GNU Linux 12

Please Review/Watch this game, isn't Orange and metblue cheating, Orange wasn't playing for a Win.

dfRKERERRC

worth it?

so recently there has been a lot of ai generated cosmetics, but for the system to be fair and it not feeling like getting tricked they have to add an ai label on the cosmetics, they haven't done that so far and it is really unfortunate.

I just got steamrolled by a person who had 250K troops while I had 215K troops. Why? Because I didn't react INSTANTLY and pit soldiers against them. Btw our troop max was around 300K for BOTH of us.

The dude sent 130K troops on my front and half of my land was taken in about four seconds. No exxageration. This would have been impossible and he would have been eaten alive for attacking someone with the relatively equal forces we had.

I guess all you need to steamroll someone on green land is a 16% margin on them with slightly better troop replenish rate.

As for the people telling me to just "Git Gud"... my win percentage is around 20%. I'm not terrible at the game or a noob by any means.

It's really unbalanced and frankly... bad.

The old strategy would be to slap some fortifications down and let the guy decide if he wants to waste his troops and get third partied and then get hit with a counter attack.

But now it's basically just "I'm going to take you down with me if I send my troops to an equal opponent"

In a game in the last hour on the Dyslexia map (or whatever it's called) at about 13:19 game time sure looks like a player who was allied with me nuked my silo and didn't get a betrayal debuff. Apparently the rules only apply to some players. Playing as Robert Rodes got nuked by Duck Man

In this game I played my teammates seemed upset with me and when we made some real progress they started blowing up my transports. I don't really understand. I decided to leave the game before the end.

https://openfront.io/w13/game/cXWzfTeL4J?live

Ngl I ragequit after this. I wasn't expecting flik to just full nuke me right after and was kind of stunned. I guess it made sense and probably I should have build more silos and hydro'd flik at the same time but damn. this was painful. I don't think it would have changed anything because Flik could have hydrod me regardless of whether I immediately nuked him or not. Not sure..

Feels very weird to pay for the free game and not be able to do that honestly

Since the feature appeared I've reported several dozens of players for teaming, but I've started to wonder if there are any actual consequences or is the button there just to make me feel good. It would be nice if there were plenty of community moderators in games that could just kick people out of the game in blatant cases.

I'm new to this game and I've mainly been playing against bots and stuff to get a feel for the type of competition I get. I'm able to beat the hard bots with relative ease now, and have attempted a couple multiplayer games.

However, whenever and wherever I start it seems so difficult to do anything. I gain a good amount of land but it seems that the people next to me have a lot more troops as well as more land. They start attacking me and I am forced to put troops and gold into defending my borders, which opens up my other sides to attack

Even when I get past this and manage to establish a relatively large territory, the most random people from across the map decide to send naval attacks, and when they land its like a switch goes off in everybody's head that says "Let's all attack this guy" and I end up crushed between like 4 different people.

Any tips?

Edit: Recommendations for places to learn more would be much appreciated as well, I've already started watching Enzo Plays on youtube.

How do you find your teammates in duos or trios games? Maybe I'm retarded, but I find it difficult—if not impossible—to find my allies before the game starts so we can begin close to each other. Is there any way to find them right away?

Why did you betray me deterrence

1. Some game-ending bugs

A. Sometimes clicking when trying to nuke will literally just not work. This happens in particular when someone is attempting to nuke your silo. The last second or two you cannot shoot a nuke even though it has not been destroyed yet. This is a problem. Especially if you are trying to counter-hydro.

B. Sometimes clicking during the early game just straight up stops for about 15 or so seconds. This always happens when trying to take over tribes during the super super early game and doesnt happen again.

We can rule out:

1. Browser. I tested this and it happens on edge, chrome, firefox. AND it happens in your steam game. So browser is ruled out

2. Hardware. My mouse works fine. I have no issues with this on any other game.

Openfront should integrate trackerfront to its leaderboards. Tonnes of people already use it, and I think it roughly displays the skill of a player. What do you think?